Col. William "Bill" Stryker, M.D. is a fictional comic book supervillain in the Marvel Comics universe, and enemy of the X-Men. Created by writer Chris Claremont and artist Brent Anderson, he first appeared in the 1982 graphic novel X-Men: God Loves, Man Kills.
Rev. Stryker is a Christian fundamentalist televangelist who sees himself on a mission from God to destroy the mutant race.
In the film X2, Stryker is played by Brian Cox as an army colone...
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Col. William "Bill" Stryker, M.D. is a fictional comic book supervillain in the Marvel Comics universe, and enemy of the X-Men. Created by writer Chris Claremont and artist Brent Anderson, he first appeared in the 1982 graphic novel X-Men: God Loves, Man Kills.
Rev. Stryker is a Christian fundamentalist televangelist who sees himself on a mission from God to destroy the mutant race.
In the film X2, Stryker is played by Brian Cox as an army colonel with a fervent desire to destroy mutants. Danny Huston portrays Stryker in the superhero prequel movie, X-Men Origins: Wolverine in which he is the villainous leader of the Weapon X project. In 2009, Stryker was named IGN's 70th Greatest Villain of All Time.
Stryker is a religious fanatic, with a military history which may have involved the Weapon X project (the same project which results in Wolverine being given his adamantium skeleton). Stryker is characterized by his unequivocal hatred of mutants. So strong is this hatred that Stryker...
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